Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 28, 1987, 6:39 PM EST for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 1987, 6:39 PM EST (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 1987, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 722 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 937 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAVL 282339 FFWAVL NCC089-010330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 639 PM EST SAT FEB 28 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA...HENDERSON SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS IN HENDERSON COUNTY INCLUDING MUD CREEK ARE OR SOON WILL BE OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS. THE RECENT CONTINUANCE OF RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES HAS CAUSED THE WATERS IN THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES TO RISE TO DANGEROUS LEVELS. MUD CREEK... JUST NORTH OF HENDERSONVILLE AND NEAR NAPLES WAS FLOWING OVER INTO NEARBY PASTURES AROUND 630 PM EST. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT STREAMS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE RISING RAPIDLY. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR STREAMS AND IN AREAS PRONE TO FAST RISING WATER SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING AND TAKE ALL NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. PEOPLE ARE REMINDED THAT MANY FLOOD RELATED D EATHS ARE DUE TO MOTORISTS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS, BRIDGES, AND UNDERPASSES...AND DUE TO CHILDREN PLAYING NEAR FLOODED STREAMS OR STORM DRAINS. CC
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 28, 3:16 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 315 PM EST SAT FEB 28 1987 ...HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN. AT 300 PM THE AREA WAS IN EASTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHERN GEORGIA MOVING EAST A NEARLY 50 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE ALREADY NEAR BANKFUL. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL THREATEN LOW LYING AREAS WITH LOCAL FLOODING. PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE PLACES SHOULD BE ALERT AND BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WESTHER SERIVCE RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE COMMERCIAL aSTATION FOR THE LASTEST FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AS
Special weather statement, Feb 28, 5:03 PM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 505 PM EST SAT FEB 28 1987 ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... RADAR SHOWS AN AREA OF RAIN ALONG WITH SOME HEAVY SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF NORTH GEORGIA WITH THE LEADING EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION MOVING INTO THE UPSTATE AREA OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION IS MOVING EASTWARD AT ABOUT 50 MPH. RAINFALL HAS BEEN SUBSTANTIAL OVER THE AREA FOR THE PAST THREE DAYS. MOST STREAMS AND RIVERS ARE NEAR OR A LITTLE ABOVE BANKFUL. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ALONG WITH THE HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE SOME RAPID RISES AND SOME FLOODING. PERSONS ALONG AND NEAR RIVERS AND STREAMS AND IN OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR THE LATEST ADVICE FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CURTIS/GSP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 117 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1987Every flash flood warning in 1987
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.